Statistics 2MA3

Probability and Statistical Methods for Science

Dr P.D.M. Macdonald

2002-2003


| Announcements | Calendar | Timetable | Tutorials | Class Notes | Computing Resources |
| Exercises | Assignments | Tests | Links | Trivia |

Statistics 2MA3 is offered by the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at McMaster University.
Any questions, comments or suggestions? Send an e-mail to me at pdmmac@mcmaster.ca.


Announcements

Check your Final Term Marks online!
Assignment #3 Solutions are online!
Office Hours
Monday 11:30, 14:30; Wednesday 11:30; Thursday 11:30

Calendar Description & Course Outline

Introduction to statistical methods and applications: data analysis and statistical methods.

Timetable

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday at 10:30 in ABB-164.

Tutorials

You can change tutorials or sign up for a tutorial online.

You must have a valid userid, password and laser printing account for the lab before your first tutorial!

Class Notes

Computing Resources

You want the "Precompiled binary distribution", not the "source code". For Windows installation, go to the link for "Windows (95 and later)", open the link "base", and click on rw1062.exe to download the installer rw1062.exe. Then run rw1062.exe to install R on your computer.

Because you are running R in Windows, not UNIX, you should skip the Introduction, which is mostly about UNIX, and begin with Entering Data.

Exercises

These exercises are for self-directed learning. They will not be graded and you do not have to hand them in. However, you will find that writing down your interpretation of the results is an excellent way to clarify your understanding. If you complete your report and submit it to me, I will read it and return it with comments and suggestions.

More Worked Examples

Assignments

Tests

Please notify me by e-mail at least 3 days ahead if you plan to write the makeup test.

Some Other Links

Trivia

Learn about these famous statisticians!
Florence Nightingale, William Sealey Gosset, Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Karl Pearson and John Wilder Tukey.
George Waddel Snedecor named the F-distribution in honour of Fisher.
Gosset and I both studied at New College, Oxford, but we were not there at the same time.
John Tukey died July 26, 2000. He is credited with many statistical innovations, including the boxplot and the stem-and-leaf plot, and for coining new words such as "bit" (a contraction of "binary integer") and "software".

What can you find out about Poisson? His name? His dates? The Prussian horse kick data?

Who was Thomas Bayes? Why is Bayes' Theorem important today?

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